Residents' pay to park scheme going ahead
The local scheme is due to go live in 2028.
Plans to charge motorists to park outside their homes have moved a step closer. City councillors have agreed to spend an initial £75,000 next year on preparatory work covering Bishopston, St Andrews and Ashley Down.
Based on current permit costs such as those paid by residents in Redland, it would mean a minimum charge of £124 a year for a single car household, with a second vehicle costing £224 and a third £560.
The local scheme is due to go live in 2028. Putting it in place will cost a further £1.8 million, part-paid by proceeds from the city’s Clean Air Zone.
The northern boundaries of the residents’ parking scheme would be the junction of Kellaway Avenue and the Gloucester Road and the junction of Muller Road and Gloucester Road.
Residents’ parking schemes were first introduced in central areas in the face of strong opposition in 2013 under Bristol’s first elected mayor, George Ferguson. They were due to be extended into the suburbs, but this was halted in 2016 after Marvin Rees was elected.
